Nana Visits BSG

A Bajoran military leader has left “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” for the even more hostile surroundings of “Battlestar Galactica.” Nana Visitor, who starred as Kira Nerys for seven full seasons on the space station known as DS9 in the Trek verse will take on a recurring role on BSG that will give her plenty of camera time with lead actress Mary McDonnell, who plays President Laura Roslin.

“Nana Visitor is playing Emily,” said Ronald D. Moore, BSG executive producer, in an interview with Starburst Magazine. “She’s another cancer patient in sickbay and [one] who Laura Roslin meets when receiving her chemotherapy treatments, which we call diloxin on our show.”

Moore served as a DS9 series writer and producer, having come over from working on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Eventually Moore also worked on “Star Trek: Voyager,” before later taking on the monumental task of resurrecting “Battlestar Galactica.”

“Not surprisingly, the President is making regular visits to sickbay this season, and in this story we introduce Emily, who is terminal and much further along in her illness then Laura,” Moore went on to say about the relationship forged between Emily and Roslin. “Faith is about the relationship between the two women. Nana is going to be terrific for this role, and it’s great to see her again.”

“Battlestar Galactica” was set to return on the SCI FI Channel in January 2008 but has been moved back to this coming March, or perhaps April. How long it airs new episodes after that will be determined by the length of the current writer’s strike. There has been rumors floating around of curtailing all of season four until 2009, but this has not been officially verified by Moore, the SCI FI Channel, NBC Universal or anyone actually attached to the production.